The Life Letters And Writings Of Charles Lamb
Contributors: Percy Fitzgerald (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781417910076
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: READER, in thy passage from the Bank-where thou hast been receiving thy half-yearly dividends (supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself)-to the Flower Pot, to secure a place for Dalston, or Shackle-well, or some other thy suburban retreat northerly,-didst thou never observe a melancholy-looking, handsome, brick and stone edifice, to the left-where Threadneedle Street abuts upon Bishopsgate?